Spring 'Roid Week 2010

It's 'Roid Week, yippeee!

Today my polaroid picture made the flickr front page of Flickr Explore :)

Advent of Spring

A week in Spring flowers, Day 1 (Pink Tulip) by Jo Bradford 

I am back in my studio after weeks of travels and I am delighted to see that the gardens are full of spring colour already.

I am still going along happily with my 365 Goodbyes Project  - using up all my expired old Polaroid Film.  To celebrate the advent of Spring 2010, I am going to make a theme of Spring Flowers for a few days, or a week, well basically until I run out of flowers to capture with my ‘roid! Cornwall, UK.

Pop over for a look at what I have been up to with my Polaroid recently :)

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Happy Monday folks :)

     

A week in Spring flowers, Day 2 (Mauve and Green Helebore) by Jo Bradford ~ Polaroid Land Camera 240 and 125i film (expired 12/2007).

(Polaroid photographs, all rights reserved, copyright: Jo Bradford 2010)

Travels with a red suitcase

I have been on the road for several weeks and could not blog thanks to a severe lack of internet access. :(        

Here is one of my polaroids for my 365 project 

It has been tough keeping up with the project whilst away from my studio but by hook or by crook I have managed it :)

More from me soon
xx

Fancy a cuppa?

Happy Saturday - What have you been up to?  My day has been spent repotting my orchids and playing with my cameras and drinking tea and eating lemon drizzle cake (too much lemon drizzle cake!)  I am still having a lot of fun with my 365 goodbyes Polaroid project....

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Bye for now

Jo
xoxo

Winter Wonderland

The snow just keeps on coming!!  We Brits are just not used to getting snow like this down in the southern end of the island.... This is like a Cornwall I have never known, and being the big kid that I am, the novelty of the wintery white landscape has not worn off for me one little bit.

As I look out my window now, there are thick flurries of snowflakes billowing in the gusting South Easterly Gale force winds.  Definitely not a day for venturing too far from home!!

I thought you may like to see a few of my Polaroids from my 365 ways to say goodbye project.

Deciding to use only expired polaroid film and 40 year old cameras is presenting daily difficulties and the occasional near meltdown as I have to undertake late night strip down and repairs to the old kit, but so far so good, I have delivered my first 11 pictures on time and I am enjoying working with a medium that you can't photoshop, or crop or otherwise alter in the post processing stage.  I just scan my daily 'roids, adjust them slightly until they exactly match the original, warts and all, and that's it! Simple :)

Here are 2 of my favourites so far.

You can follow the progress of my "365 Ways to say goodbye" project here at www.365goodbyes.tumblr.com